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Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar , or National Poet of Scotland, [ 3 ] and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011.
He joined a group of new and distinctive authors, including Philip Hobsbaum, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, of whom Hobsbaum was the nucleus. [ 5 ] With Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, he became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow in 2001, [ 6 ] retiring in 2009. [ 1 ]
Private revelation, in the Catholic Church, a revelation from God to a specific Christian Revelation of the Veiled , the Persian treatise on Sufism Reveal (narrative) , in literature and show business, the exposure of a previously hidden key element of the plot or the performance.
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is a 1987 play by Liz Lochhead.It explores the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart.It is primarily written to be from a female point of view, and is considered to be Lochhead's most successful and critically acclaimed play. [1]
Kathleen Jamie has written poems for the Cop26 summit, the opening of Parliament and about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Scotland’s outgoing national poet will leave ‘powerful legacy ...
The King's Gold Medal for Poetry (known as Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry when the monarch is female) [1] is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom , but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the rest ...
Poetry portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Scottish poets . It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
By night, she dreams of poetry and roams the forest grieving the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie. When guests arrive in town with a plan that will uproot Junie’s life, her act of ...